Question about Pensieve memories - Secondary Memory

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 186033

--- "clcb58" <carylcb at ...> wrote:
>
> Does extracting a memory for Pensieve viewing erase the memory
> from the mind or just make a copy of it? Does anyone remember
> canon examples to support either theory?
>

bboyminn:

The problem here is thinking of memories as single solitary
entities; but they are not. That is, they may be 'single' but
they are not 'solitary'.

Let me explain, many of own memories are false in that we
imagined them. Likely memories from long ago are not memories
of actual events, but memories of the last time you remembered
them. 

They are memories of memories, and this sets up an important 
concept; memories are not solitary. They do not exist in 
isolation. I remember the event, I remember remembering the
event, I remember putting the memory with full knowledge of
what the memories was, into the Pensieve. 

So, a memory of a single solitary event is accompanied by
a myriad of secondary memories associated with that single
solitary event. Even if you purge the core event from your
mind, you still have enough knowledge of the event to know
that you should recover it from the Pensieve when you need 
it again. Or to simply remember that the event actually exists.

It is not as simple as a single memory. 

I think if you place a single first-hand solitary memory in
the Pensieve, the event is gone from your mind, but that does
not mean your knowledge of the event is equally gone. You have
a host of secondary memories to remind you that the event took
place. Even if you don't remember it, you remember the last 
time you remembered it, that secondary memory represents a
new single solitary event that is tangentially tied to the
original event itself.

Hey...I'm just saying....

Steve/bboyminn